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My mom just signed a 24 month contract with DirecTV in December. On her account she has a Genie and 3 C31 clients. My account is contract free, and has 5 HD/DVR receivers. Last month my mom moved into my spare bedroom, and isn't using her DirecTV anymore. I called DirecTV to merge our accounts, and they said I can only merge accounts with a spouse. I know I could just cancel my account, and move her receivers into my house. Is there an option that would allow me to keep my receivers, and send hers back?

No, That would be basically swapping contracts and that is not possible

incorrect. merging accounts is possible as i do it all the time in crg. which ever account has the longest agreement is the one that remains and the ecf is waived on the other one. But if it is your moms it can't be done it has to be like a spouse or fiancé.

Haven't encountered this specific situation but have had some tricky situations. Generally, somebody somewhere in the D* organization can figure out something, the problem is getting connected to that person and being able to communicate calmly the problem to them and being somwhat flexible in how it might be tolerably fixed.

My mom is rebuilding her house, so her stay is going to be temporary. She has been through a lot these past few months, and needs all the financial relief she can get. I am going to try Gov's advise and put her account on vacation. Thanks for the help guys.

My mom is rebuilding her house, so her stay is going to be temporary. She has been through a lot these past few months, and needs all the financial relief she can get. I am going to try Gov's advise and put her account on vacation. Thanks for the help guys.

Just bear in mind, that while her account is suspended, the agreement does not continue to expire. So if your goal is to ride out her agreement and just keep yours, then suspension may not be the best option. If that is your goal, then I would just remove what services you can and go down to the lowest package.

.... I would just remove what services you can and go down to the lowest package.

I have already done this.

Question: Can I hook her Genie up at my house using the same dish my receivers are hooked to? I called Direct, and they said no. Not sure they meant technically it wasn't possible, or that it was against their terms of service.

the other account will need a swm for the genie to work, but the services on her end can not be suspended for it to work as you can not activate her leased reciever on your account as this situation is inellgible for a merge. so what you are trying to do won't work.

As far as hooking her Genie up at your house goes, that depends. Do you have a SWM setup with a SWM 16 multiswitch? If so then yes you should be able to hook her Genie up as long as you make sure to not overload the leg of the SWM-16 you hook it up to (the Genie has 5 tuners, so you can only hook up one other DVR, and a receiver and that would take you to the max of 8 tuners per leg). If you don't have SWM at all then the Genie won't work at all as it requires SWM. If you have SWM but only a SWM LNB, or a SWM 8 then you will have way too many tuners since you said you already have 5 HD/DVRs (not sure if that means 5 HD-DVRs, or 5 total receivers comprised of HD-DVRs and HD receivers). Either way you would have a minimum of 11 tuners (5 for the genie, 2 for a HD-DVR, and 4 for HD receivers), which wouldn't work on a SWM-8 or SWM LNB.

I would recommend putting a bandstop filter on her genie so it isn't trying to talk over DECA to the rest of your recievers. I imagine receivers from different accounts trying to talk over DECA to each other could cause issues.

As far as it being against the terms of service, I don't think that would be the case at all. You would have two active accounts with active receivers run off the same dish (at one address), that happens at apartment complexes and stuff all the time. It's only really against the terms of service when you do it the other way around, one account active at two addresses.

It's all kind of a moot point right now though, since if you try hooking it up while the service is suspended she won't be able to use it at all anyway.

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